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In today’s episode of Lay Down With MAGA Dogs, You End Up With Really Racist MAGA Fleas, a Black Trump supporter is suing a Republican group whose members he claims called him a “slave.” (Guys—guys, stop laughing! This is serious!)
Meet Carl Baxter, a Lee County, Florida, republican and the president of the Republican Club of North and East Fort Myers. He’s mad. And he’s suing the conservative MAGA group Americans for Prosperity, claiming one of its members made racist remarks to his face during a casual conversation—which no one could have possibly seen coming unless that person happened to be literally everyone.
From ABC 7:
According to the lawsuit, Baxter was getting paid by AFP for canvassing neighborhoods and talking to voters. Twelve days into the job, Baxter says he complained to his supervisor about not being properly compensated for the work he was putting in. Baxter’s lawsuit says on the call with his supervisor when she stated: “I know you are doing the work and I can see the doors that you are hitting on my iPad on my side. At least you are working as a slave (sarcastically) but at least you are getting paid, many slaves today do get paid, many used to never get paid. Are you a slave?’”
The lawsuit also claims another member of the organization, AFP’s deputy director of grassroots, tried to bribe Baxter during a meeting at the Oasis restaurant in downtown Fort Myers. The suit alleges Baxter declined the money and that the AFP member’s request was “$500 in bribe money to provide ‘dirt’ on Cape Coral councilmember, Patty Cummings.”
To be fair, if you’re a Black man producing labor for a white organization and you’re not being “properly compensated for the work,” that does mean you’re kind of a…. You know what? Never mind.
For whatever reason, James Muwakkil, the president of the NAACP Lee County branch, felt compelled to speak out on Baxter’s behalf, saying he’s known Baxter for 10 years and that he has no reason not to believe his story.
(Plot twist: dude we all believe his story but that’s not the point—you know what? Never mind again.)
“He’s not known as a reactionary person, then I would think that the lawsuit has merit,” Muwakkil said. “The surprise is that we’re still having to fight these battles that should’ve been won way back when the Civil War ended.”
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OK…but…aren’t we kind of ignoring the elephant in the room here? (Pun absolutely intended.) Are we all just going to sit here and pretend Baxter isn’t a staunch supporter of the demonstrably racist commander-in-Black-jobs and his white-sheet-wearing supporters? Donald Trump is the guy who will get behind a podium and compare South American migrants to Hannibal Lecter, and call them “animals” who are “not human.”
He’s the guy who will get on stage and tell Black and brown congresswomen to “go back where they came from,” despite them all being born and/or raised in America; and who has, numerous times, suggested that Black voters are flocking toward him because of his mugshot, criminal record and ugly-ass tennis shoes because he only associates us with whatever anti-Black stereotypes come to his mind in the moment.
Baxter is literally mad at someone who supports the guy who can’t accept he was fired in 2020 by millions and millions of people, which is why he and his supporters continue to attack Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity. Baxter is mad at guy who once said, “Laziness is a trait in Blacks,” and whose family business engaged in anti-Black illegal housing discrimination, which he never apologized for, which surprised exactly none of us since he’s the also guy who called for the death penalty for Black and brown kids wrongfully accused of a brutal rape–and refused to take it back even after they were exonerated.
And all of it is in lock-step with this guy’s pops, Fred Trump, who is always lifted in honor by his kid. Fred Trump isn’t only the guy who helmed the racist real estate company his son inherited, but also the guy who threw on Klan sheets and marched with the white supremacists in Queens before that.
So, what’s Baxter even mad about? Are these not his people? Is this not his orangey-white nationalist king and his cult of court jesters?
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From the Independent:
Baxter serves as president of the Republican Club of North & East Fort Myers, and is not at all shy about his outsized affection for Donald Trump. He can be seen on social media at Trump appearances, waving a MAGA flag at a “Trump Truck Parade,” at charity galas giving the camera a Trumpian “thumbs-up,” and donning a red MAGA hat and posing with, among others, a county tax collector who has come out as a vociferous opponent of critical race theory.
Look, if Black MAGAt leader known as Temu Tim Scott opposes critical race theory, he must not believe systemic racism is a thing in America, which means slavery never happened in the first place, so, again—what is Baxter even complaining about?
Trump is a loud and proud bigot, so it stands to reason that when you’re a Black person mingling with MAGAts, you might have the occasional run-in with loud and proud bigots. If you can’t take the heat, get out from in front of the burning KKK cross.
Or whatever, just pretend to be surprised and file a lawsuit, I guess.
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